Template:Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 15

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1802: C.S. Major-General Isaac Ridgeway Trimble is born at Culpeper County, Virginia.

1830: C.S. Brigadier-General Laurence Simmons Baker is born in Gates County, North Carolina.

1863: The Confederate government approves General Robert Edward Lee's plan to invade Pennsylvania.

1864: The Battle of New Market begins in Virginia. C.S. Major General John Breckinridge, using a ragtag force that included Virginia Military Institute cadets attacked U.S. General Franz Sigel's line near the north fork of the Shenandoah River. Sigel eventually withdraws to Strasburg.

1867: Nebraska ratifies the so-called Fourteenth Amendment.